TO THE full-throated cheers of his supporters, Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has announced that he is making a political…
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THE editor-in-chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful OBE, has been named the UK’s most influential black person by the Powerlist…
AT least 32 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving multiple vehicles in Egypt, the…
KING Charles III embarks Tuesday on a four-day trip to Kenya, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation,…
MANY parts of Ghana were plunged into darkness due to a lack of gas to power machinery used to generate…
THE paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seized control of Sudan’s second largest city, Nyala, from the army after months…
PRIME Minister Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia will not invade any neighbouring nation after his recent comments on a need for…
DETAINED Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, who eight days ago resumed a hunger strike, is “very weak” and in an…
ETHIOPIAN-born scientist Gebisa Ejeta has received the National Medal of Science, the highest state honour attainable by scientists in the…
LIBERIAN President George Weah faces a November 14 run-off vote after edging out his main rival by less than half…
THE United States on Monday ended assistance to Gabon over its August 30 coup but said it was ready to…
THE Kenyan shilling sank to a new all-time low of 150 to the dollar on Monday, adding to the woes…
SOUTH Africa’s third biggest political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, has held a protest outside the Israeli embassy in the…
THE UN says it has pulled its peacekeepers out of a camp in northern Mali earlier than planned, because “their…
AN auction in France of items belonging to the first Senegalese president has been delayed, as the government in Dakar…
SIX people including two civilians were killed and nine others wounded in a suicide attack on a military outpost in…
MORE than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu,…
LAWYERS for Niger’s ousted president on Friday rejected claims by the new military rulers that he had tried to escape,…
TWO Namibian trainee nurses are facing disciplinary action after they posted a video on TikTok of themselves dancing inside a…
THE military government in Niger says it has foiled an attempt by the deposed former President, Mohamed Bazoum, to escape…